Hi again, many thanks for Your answers. So, if I understood Wei right:
Zhao, Wei (Cancer Center) wrote (12.3.2008): > I had a similar problem when read one of my spss.sav with long > variable label. But when I read another spss.sav with short label the > same way, I don't have problem. > Seems like R only allows variable labels of lengths 1...255 as your > error message showed. Searching (in SPSS) all variable labels of length > 255 and coercing them to the length of 255 should solve the problem. @Brian, who wrote: > read.spss() is not targetted at such a recent version of SPSS, and > only allows variable labels of lengths 1...255. I can save the data in SPSS ver 7 -format, too. Is this version supported by the import function? However, the error message "error reading system-file header" gives the impression that the problem is somewhere else than in the overlength labels. Or have I understood something wrong? Unfortunately, I cannot make the whole data file available. I could make a snapshot resulting in the same error - would that be helpful? Kind regards, Kimmo ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
